Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Teachings by
Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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Category: Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
(Last Updated
Aug 16, 2012
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Introduction to the Online Advice Book
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Category: Dharma Organization Work
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Dharma Work and Centers
(Last Updated
May 9, 2011
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Introduction to the "Dharma Work and Centers" section of the Online Advice Book
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Category: Advice to Dharma Centers
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The Importance of the Dharma Center
(Last Updated
Mar 14, 2012
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Advice for students at a center celebrating its tenth anniversary
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Logos for FPMT Centers, Services and Projects
(Last Updated
Mar 30, 2011
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The meaning and significance of logos for FPMT centers, projects and services
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Advice to Dharma Centers
(Last Updated
Jul 29, 2009
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Advice to staff and volunteers of Dharma centers
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Category: Dharma and the Arts
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Integrating Dharma in the Arts
(Last Updated
Aug 21, 2008
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Integrating dharma with music, writing and other artistic pursuits
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Category: Dharma Work & Worldly Work
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Balancing Dharma Work and Worldly Work
(Last Updated
Jul 27, 2009
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Advice for combining dharma and various fields of work
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Category: Advice to Center Directors
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Advice to Center Directors
(Last Updated
Aug 11, 2009
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Advice to directors of Dharma centers and projects
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Category: Service and Support of the Dharma
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Service and Support of the Dharma
(Last Updated
Jan 9, 2010
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Letters and advice to those who support Dharma projects
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Category: Teaching Dharma
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Teaching Dharma
(Last Updated
Sep 30, 2011
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Advice for Dharma teachers
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Teaching
(Last Updated
Sep 30, 2011
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Rinpoche describes service with a good heart and the importance of lay Western teachers being qualified to teach the Dharma and help the Sangha.
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Category: Translation Work
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Translating Texts and Teachings
(Last Updated
May 10, 2011
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Advice for those translating texts or oral teachings
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Category: Conflicts Between Students
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Conflicts Between Students
(Last Updated
May 10, 2011
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Advice for handling difficult situations involving fellow Dharma students
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Category: Emotions
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Emotions
(Last Updated
Mar 5, 2009
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Introduction to the "Advice on Emotions" section of the Online Advice Book
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Category: Practice Advice
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Advice on Practice
(Last Updated
Nov 11, 2009
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Introduction to the "Advice on Practice" section of the Online Advice Book
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Category: 35 Buddhas Practice
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35 Buddhas Practice
(Last Updated
Mar 29, 2012
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Advice on Thirty-five Buddhas practice
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Category: Practicing in Prison
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Prison Practice
(Last Updated
Jan 11, 2010
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Advice on prison practice
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Advice to Prisoners
(Last Updated
Sep 17, 2008
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A letter to a prisoner
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Category: Retreat Advice
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Retreat Advice
(Last Updated
Sep 3, 2008
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Advice on doing retreats
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Category: Daily Practices
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Life Practice Advice
(Last Updated
Jan 23, 2013
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Extensive practice advice to a long-time student
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Essential Life Practices
(Last Updated
Apr 10, 2012
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Advice to a student on practices for the rest of his life
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Daily Practices
(Last Updated
Feb 20, 2009
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Advice on daily practices
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Category: Sutra and Mantra Recitations
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Sutra and Mantra Recitations
(Last Updated
Sep 3, 2008
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Advice on sutra and mantra recitations
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Category: Practice Problems
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Problems During One's Practice
(Last Updated
Jan 10, 2010
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Advice on problems encountered during one's practice
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Category: Purification Practices
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Thank you for Nyung-näs
(Last Updated
Feb 10, 2011
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Advice sent to a student who had completed 200 nyung-näs
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Purification Practices
(Last Updated
Feb 7, 2011
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Advice on purification practices
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Practices for Purification and Collecting Merit
(Last Updated
Jun 3, 2013
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Advice given to a student doing nyung-nä practice
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Category: Wind Imbalance / Lung
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Wind Imbalance / Lung
(Last Updated
Jul 23, 2012
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Advice on wind imbalance (lung)
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Antidote for Lung (Wind Imbalance)
(Last Updated
Jul 23, 2012
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Practices for lung (wind imbalance)
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Category: Transforming Problems / Tong-len
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Transforming Problems and Tong-len
(Last Updated
Jan 26, 2010
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Advice on transforming problems and tong-len
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Category: Practices for Benefiting Animals
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Practices for Benefiting Animals
(Last Updated
Oct 20, 2009
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Advice on practices for benefiting animals
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Category: Deity Practice
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Deity Practice
(Last Updated
Jan 15, 2010
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Advice on deity practice
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Category: Dorje Shugden
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Dorje Shugden
(Last Updated
Nov 6, 2011
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Advice on dorje shugden
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Category: General Practice Advice
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Motivation for Dharma Practice
(Last Updated
Dec 20, 2011
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Advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche about motivation for practice in two separate letters to a student
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Letter to a Student
(Last Updated
Nov 21, 2011
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A letter to a student about her practice and other matters.
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Guidelines for Practice
(Last Updated
Oct 7, 2011
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Guidelines for purification and lam-rim practices
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General Practice Advice
(Last Updated
Oct 1, 2008
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General practice advice
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Buddhism and Christianity
(Last Updated
Jul 12, 2012
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What differentiates Buddhism from Christianity and other religions
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Category: Advice for New Students
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Nyung-näs and Practices for Life
(Last Updated
Feb 22, 2012
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Extensive practice advice for a new student
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Advice for New Students
(Last Updated
Oct 14, 2009
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Advice for new students
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A New Path in the Dharma
(Last Updated
Oct 8, 2012
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Heart advice to a student seeking a new path in the Dharma. Includes advice about the value of the perfect human rebirth and the meaning of OM MANI PADME HUM.
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Category: Miscellaneous
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Miscellaneous Advice
(Last Updated
Mar 13, 2012
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Introduction to the "Miscellaneous Advice" section of the Online Advice Book
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Category: His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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His Holiness the Dalai Lama
(Last Updated
Sep 16, 2009
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Praises, addresses and other advice about His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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Category: Relics and Holy Objects
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The Benefits of Prayer Wheels and Chenrezig Practice
(Last Updated
Jan 11, 2012
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In a letter to a student, Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the Chenrezig practice and how to use a prayer wheel
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Relics and Holy Objects
(Last Updated
Sep 28, 2009
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Advice on relics and holy objects
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Category: Vows
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Vows
(Last Updated
Sep 3, 2008
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Advice on vows
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Category: Religion, Politics and Travel
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The Benefits of Mantras
(Last Updated
Apr 4, 2011
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The benefits of the Namgyalma mantra, the Medicine Buddha practice and the Boudha Stupa
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Religion, Politics and Travel
(Last Updated
Apr 23, 2013
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Advice on religion, politics, travel and immigration
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Letter to European MP
(Last Updated
Mar 8, 2011
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Advice sent to a European politician
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Category: Black Magic & Spirit Harm
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Spirit Harm and Restarting Practice
(Last Updated
Feb 24, 2013
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A student requested advice on spirit harm and how to resume Dharma practice after a break
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Black Magic & Spirit Harm
(Last Updated
Sep 17, 2009
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Advice on black magic & spirit harm
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Category: Dharma and Worldly Activities
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Dharma and Worldly Activities
(Last Updated
Sep 3, 2009
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Advice on dharma and worldly activities
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Category: Family & Relationship
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Advice on Family & Relationship
(Last Updated
Mar 5, 2009
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Introduction to the "Advice on Family & Relationship" section of the Online Advice Book
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Category: Death & Transitions
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Advice on Transitions
(Last Updated
Mar 13, 2012
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Introduction to the "Advice on Transitions" section of the Online Advice Book
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Category: Misfortune
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Advice on Misfortune
(Last Updated
Oct 11, 2009
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Introduction to the "Advice on Misfortune" section of the Online Advice Book
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Category: Disasters
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Disasters
(Last Updated
Oct 17, 2012
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Advice on natural disasters
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Category: Business Problems
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Business Problems
(Last Updated
Oct 1, 2009
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Advice on business obstacles and financial problems
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Category: Dharma Business Problems
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Dharma Business Problems
(Last Updated
Sep 3, 2008
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Advice on dharma business problems
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Category: Court Cases and Legal Action
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Court Cases and Legal Action
(Last Updated
Oct 8, 2009
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Advice on lawsuits; on suing and being sued
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Category: Problems at Work
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Work Problems
(Last Updated
Sep 3, 2008
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Advice on work problems
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Category: Money Difficulties
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Money Difficulties
(Last Updated
Jun 29, 2011
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Advice on money difficulties
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Category: Practices for Success
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Removing Obstacles and Collecting Merit
(Last Updated
Mar 7, 2012
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How to remove obstacles and collect extensive merit through prostrations, offerings and other practices
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Practices for Success
(Last Updated
Oct 2, 2009
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Advice on practices for success
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Category: Global Warming
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Global Warming
(Last Updated
Sep 3, 2008
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Advice on global warming
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Category: Terrorism and War
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Terrorism and War
(Last Updated
Oct 9, 2009
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Advice on terrorism and war
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Category: Health
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Advice on Health
(Last Updated
Sep 20, 2012
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Introduction to the "Advice on Health" section of the Online Advice Book
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Category: HIV/AIDS
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AIDS
(Last Updated
Mar 7, 2013
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Advice on AIDS
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Category: Transforming Pain and Illness
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Transforming Pain
(Last Updated
Aug 26, 2009
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Advice on transforming pain
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Category: Healing
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Offering Comfort and Help to the Sick
(Last Updated
Dec 18, 2012
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Advice to a nurse about the merit of offering service to sick people
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Healing
(Last Updated
Aug 17, 2009
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Advice on healing
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Category: Addictions
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Addictions
(Last Updated
Sep 2, 2008
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Advice on addictions
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Category: Mental Health
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Mental Health
(Last Updated
Sep 2, 2008
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Advice on mental health
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Category: Practices for Pacifying Illness
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Prayers for Healing, Prolonging Life and Good Health
(Last Updated
Mar 14, 2011
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Prayers and mantras for healing, long life and good health
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Category: Operations
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Advice Before an Operation
(Last Updated
Aug 30, 2009
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Advice before an operation
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Category: Cancer
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Cancer is Bringing You to Enlightenment
(Last Updated
May 10, 2011
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How to apply tong-len practice to cancer, to attain ultimate happiness
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Cancer Diagnosis
(Last Updated
Feb 26, 2013
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A student was diagnosed with cancer. Her friend wrote to Rinpoche to request prayers and practices.
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Cancer
(Last Updated
Aug 25, 2009
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Advice on cancer
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Category: Hepatitis C
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Hepatitis C
(Last Updated
Aug 20, 2009
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Advice on Hepatitis C
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Category: Brain Disorders
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Brain Disorders
(Last Updated
Aug 15, 2009
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Advice on brain disorders
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Category: Stomach and Digestive Problems
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Stomach and Digestive Problems
(Last Updated
Sep 2, 2008
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Advice on stomach and digestive problems
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Category: Arthritis
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Arthritis
(Last Updated
Aug 11, 2009
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Advice on arthritis
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Category: Other Illnesses
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Other Illnesses
(Last Updated
Sep 2, 2008
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Advice on other illnesses
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Bodhisattva Vows and Seven-limb Practice
(Last Updated
Jun 5, 2013
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A long letter from Rinpoche to a student with ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease), giving encouragement and sharing practice advice
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Category: Non-harming
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Advice on Non-harming
(Last Updated
Jan 16, 2012
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Introduction to the "Advice on Non-harming" section of the Online Advice Book
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Category: Lam-rim Topics
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Advice on Lam-rim Topics
(Last Updated
Jan 26, 2011
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Introduction to the "Advice on Lam-rim Topics" section of the Online Advice Book
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Category: Lam-rim Study and Practice
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Studying Lam-rim
(Last Updated
Sep 2, 2008
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Advice on studying lam-rim
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Lam-rim Realizations
(Last Updated
Aug 18, 2011
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Rinpoche responds to questions from a student about lam-rim study and practice
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Category: Guru Devotion
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The Power of Faith
(Last Updated
Oct 15, 2012
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Advice to a student about devotion to the guru, the originator of all attainments
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Seeing Faults in the Guru
(Last Updated
Feb 20, 2012
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How to abandon negative thoughts about the guru and develop stable guru devotion
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Offering Thanks to the Guru
(Last Updated
Dec 27, 2012
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A devoted student wrote to Rinpoche to offer thanks. Rinpoche responded with advice on a range of topics including the sufferings of samsara, sur offering and the benefits of being vegetarian
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Guru Devotion Advice
(Last Updated
Mar 11, 2011
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Advice on guru devotion, purification practices and other topics
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Guru Devotion
(Last Updated
Sep 2, 2008
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Advice on guru devotion
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Category: Qualities of the Buddha
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Qualities of the Buddha
(Last Updated
Nov 17, 2009
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Advice on the qualities of the Buddha
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Category: Preliminary Practices
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What To Do After Preliminary Practices
(Last Updated
Oct 7, 2012
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Advice on lam-rim meditation for a student who has completed the preliminary practices
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Preliminary Practices
(Last Updated
Sep 2, 2008
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Advice on preliminary practices
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Mandala Offerings and Guru Yoga Practice
(Last Updated
Mar 18, 2012
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Advice on practices for life, including an extensive explanation of mandala offerings and instructions for guru yoga practice
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Category: Making Offerings
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Making Offerings
(Last Updated
Aug 11, 2011
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Advice on making offerings
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Category: Karma
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Lam-rim: Karma
(Last Updated
Feb 7, 2011
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Advice on karma
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Killing One's Parents
(Last Updated
Jul 6, 2011
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Advice on how to purify heavy negative karma
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Category: Meditation and Visualization
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Meditation and Visualization
(Last Updated
Aug 28, 2009
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Advice on meditation and visualization
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Category: Emptiness
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Meditations for Inner Peace
(Last Updated
Dec 21, 2011
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Advice on emptiness meditation, patience and how to achieve ultimate happiness
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Emptiness
(Last Updated
Oct 11, 2008
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Advice on emptiness
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Category: Compassion
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The Kindness of All Sentient Beings
(Last Updated
Jun 22, 2012
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Rinpoche advises a student to meditate on the kindness of sentient beings every day
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The Good Heart is the Root of Happiness
(Last Updated
Aug 29, 2011
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The good heart is the very essence of life
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Compassion
(Last Updated
Jan 9, 2011
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Advice on Compassion
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Category: Impermanence and Death
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Impermanence and Death
(Last Updated
Sep 9, 2009
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Advice on impermanence and death
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Category: Refuge
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Lam-rim: Refuge
(Last Updated
Jan 26, 2011
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Advice on refuge
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Category: Advice for Sangha
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Advice for Sangha
(Last Updated
Sep 25, 2011
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Introduction to the "Advice to Sangha" section of the Online Advice Book
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Category: Introductory
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What is Dharma?
(Last Updated
Jan 23, 2013
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An introduction to the first 3 Noble Truths, exploring suffering, its causes and its destruction
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The Benefits of Dharma Practice
(Last Updated
Oct 17, 2012
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How to benefit others by practicing the graduated path the enlightenment
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The Aim of Spiritual Practice
(Last Updated
Jan 19, 2011
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The purpose of meditation and the spiritual path
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Teachings from Singapore, 2009
(Last Updated
Mar 26, 2009
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Teachings given in Singapore, January - February 2009.
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Some Thoughts on the Future of Buddhism
(Last Updated
Nov 14, 2008
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The future of Buddhism addressed by an examination of its past and a look at why it is popular today
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Liberation and Enlightenment
(Last Updated
Nov 4, 2008
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An interview with Rinpoche on basic Buddhist topics
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How to Listen to the Teachings
(Last Updated
Mar 14, 2013
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The teachings become beneficial for subduing the mind if we listen effectively with a pure motivation
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Guru Shakyamuni Buddha's Kindness (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Nov 4, 2009
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Teachings given on the Buddha at Shakyamuni Center, Taichung, Taiwan. March 3 and 6, 2007.
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Basic Philosophy of Buddhism
(Last Updated
Oct 8, 2009
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Teachings given at Kopan Monastery, Nepal in December 2008.
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Bad and Good Depend on the Individual Person's Interpretation
(Last Updated
Jul 13, 2012
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A happy life is due to good motivation and actions which bring good results
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Category: Sutras and Root Texts
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Category: Sutra Commentaries
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The Benefits of Studying the Perfection of Wisdom Sutras (Prajnaparamita)
(Last Updated
Jan 16, 2013
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the benefits of studying the teachings of the Buddha
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Sanghata Sutra Commentary and lung (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
Jan 16, 2013
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These teachings were given on February 28 2007 at Shakyamuni Center in Taiwan. It includes an oral transmission of the Sanghata Sutra.
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Long-life Sutra and Torma Offering (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Jan 16, 2013
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Teachings on the Long-life Sutra, including the oral transmission and teachings on torma offering. Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings in Taipei, Taiwan, 15-16 April, 2007.
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Heart Sutra Retreat (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Jan 16, 2013
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this teaching in Malaysia, 10-13 April 1997.
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Golden Light Sutra in Portland OR (Audio)
(Last Updated
Jan 16, 2013
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this commentary and partial oral transmission of the Golden Light Sutra at Maitripa Institute over two days, November 2nd and 3rd 2007.
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Golden Light Sutra in New York City (Audio)
(Last Updated
Jan 16, 2013
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Commentary and partial oral transmission of the first seven chapters of the Golden Light Sutra given at New York's Tibet House September 2007
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Category: Lineage Lamas
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Category: Biographies
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The Life Story of Atisha
(Last Updated
Jul 27, 2010
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche describes the life and work of the great bohisattva Atisha
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The Great Yogi Milarepa
(Last Updated
Oct 24, 2012
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Milarepa achieved enlightenment by following the path, with much hardship
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Category: Kadampa Teachings
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The Lineage of the Teachings
(Last Updated
Jul 27, 2010
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The lineage of the teachings was handed down to the Kadampas by Atisha, an Indian pandit who revived Buddhism in Tibet
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Kadampa Teachings (Audio and Unedited Transcripts), Continued
(Last Updated
Aug 23, 2012
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Teachings given at Root Institute, Days 5 - 7; includes a commentary on Atisha's Jewel Garland
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Kadampa Teachings (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Aug 23, 2012
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Teachings at Root Institute, Days 1 - 4; includes an oral transmission and commentary on Atisha's Jewel Garland
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Kadampa Teachings
(Last Updated
Mar 31, 2011
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Commentary on the teachings of Atisha and the Kadampa Geshes
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Eight Verses of Thought Transformation (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
Apr 7, 2010
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Teachings on Kadampa geshe Langri Tangpa's Eight Verses of Thought Transformation given in November of 2003 at Tse Chen Ling Centre in San Francisco, California USA.
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Category: Praises and Tributes
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Remembering the Kindness of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan People
(Last Updated
Jul 28, 2011
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A prayer for the success of His Holiness the Dalai Lama’s wishes and for the Tibetan people
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Prayer for the Swift Return of Geshe Jampa Gyatso
(Last Updated
Sep 6, 2010
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A prayer Lama Zopa Rinpoche composed for the swift return of Geshe Jampa Gyatso
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Prayer for the Quick Return of Khen Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup
(Last Updated
Mar 14, 2012
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A prayer composed by Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche for the swift return of Khen Rinpoche Lama Lhundrup Rigsel
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In Praise of His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama
(Last Updated
May 15, 2013
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Praise and request to His Holiness the Dalai Lama given at the long-life puja offered to His Holiness in September 1996, after the Kalachakra initiation in Sydney, Australia
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Great Compassion Buddha and His Holiness the Dalai Lama
(Last Updated
Jul 5, 2011
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Rinpoche teaches about great compassion, and the qualities of His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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Category: Buddhist Practices
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Category: Deity Practice
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Teachings from the Thousand-Arm Chenrezig Retreat (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Nov 28, 2010
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings during a Thousand-Arm Chenrezig Retreat held in Taichung, Taiwan, February-March 2001.
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Teachings from the Medicine Buddha Retreat (Members Only)
(Last Updated
Oct 14, 2011
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Excerpts from Teachings from the Medicine Buddha Retreat, a book by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
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Teachings from the Medicine Buddha Retreat (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Nov 16, 2009
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Land of Medicine Buddha, October-November 2001
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Teachings from the Medicine Buddha Retreat
(Last Updated
Jul 30, 2010
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Land of Medicine Buddha, October-November 2001
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Teachings from the Mani Retreat
(Last Updated
Dec 27, 2012
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Teachings during a retreat to recite one hundred million Chenrezig mantras
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Teachings from 100 Million Mani Retreat 2009 (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Aug 27, 2012
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings at the 100 Million Mani Retreat - Institut Vajra Yogini, Lavaur, France. May 2009.
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Teachings before Mitukpa Initiation, Taiwan 2007 (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
May 9, 2010
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Teachings given before Mitukpa Initiation at Shakyamuni Center, Taichung, Taiwan 25 Feb – 26 Feb 2007.
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Teachings at the Mitukpa Retreat
(Last Updated
May 22, 2012
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Lightly edited excerpts from a one-month Mitukpa retreat held in Vermont, USA, 2002.
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Teachings at Medicine Buddha Puja (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Mar 21, 2012
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Teachings given during a Medicine Buddha Puja at Shakyamuni Center, Taiwan in March 2007.
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Teachings at Amitabha and White Tara Initiations and Retreat (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Jun 20, 2012
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Amitabha long-life initiation, Bringing to the Pure Land and White Tara long-life initiation and retreat at Shakyamuni Center, Taichung, Taiwan, Feb 18-21 2007.
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Teachings and Mitukpa Initiation, Taiwan 2007
(Last Updated
Jan 28, 2013
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A lightly edited transcript of teachings given before the Mitukpa initiation at Shakyamuni Center, Taichung, Taiwan, 25 Feb – 26 Feb 2007.
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Tara The Liberator
(Last Updated
Sep 8, 2008
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How the meaning of life and happiness may be actualized by Tara Practice
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Praises to the 21 Taras
(Last Updated
Jul 2, 2009
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche chants The Praises to the 21 Taras
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Mind Retreat
(Last Updated
Jan 23, 2013
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An address to students doing a Vajrasattva group retreat
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Mahamudra Teachings and Medicine Buddha Teachings (Chinese Audio)
(Last Updated
Mar 5, 2009
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Included is the oral transmission of the First Panchen Lama's Root Text for the Precious Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra.
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Mahamudra Teachings and Medicine Buddha Teachings (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
May 8, 2012
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings in Crestone, Colorado, in June 2008. Included is the oral transmission of the First Panchen Lama's Root Text for the Precious Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra and the Medicine Buddha jenang.
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Chanting the Names of Manjushri (Manjushri-nama-samgiti) (Audio)
(Last Updated
Mar 21, 2012
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An oral transmission of the Manjushri-nama-samgiti, which consists of 160 verses and mantra sentences, condensing an enormous tantric lore.
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Bodhgaya Teachings: 2006 (Audio and Unedited Transcript) Continued
(Last Updated
Mar 25, 2010
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Days 4-6: includes teachings, oral transmissions of Maitreya prayer, King of Prayers and Stainless Beam Mantra.
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Bodhgaya Teachings: 2006 (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
Jan 4, 2010
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Days 1-3: Maitreya Buddha puja, Dharma teachings, meditation on Maitreya Buddha, and an oral transmission of the Maitreya mantra.
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Amitayus Sutra and Mantra
(Last Updated
Sep 9, 2008
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Amitayus long mantra, practice sadhana, and long life sutra
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Amitabha and White Tara Initiations and Retreat
(Last Updated
Jun 20, 2012
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Lightly edited teachings from the Amitabha and White Tara initiations and retreat held at Shakyamuni Center, Taiwan, in February 2007.
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A Teaching on Yamantaka
(Last Updated
Aug 24, 2011
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A commentary on Yamantaka practice along with teachings on emptiness
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A Teaching on Heruka
(Last Updated
Aug 24, 2011
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The Skillful Means of Taking an Everlasting Holiday in Tagpa Kachö, the Pure Land of Vajrayogini
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Category: Preliminary Practices
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Teachings on Offerings (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
Nov 28, 2012
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings on offering practices during a Cittamani Tara Puja at Amitabha Buddhist Center, Singapore in 1992.
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Teachings from 100 Million Mani Retreat 2000 (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Jan 1, 2013
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings during the 100 Million Mani Retreat at Chenrezig Institute, Australia, in December 2000.
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How to Offer a Mandala
(Last Updated
Jan 14, 2013
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A compilation of teachings on the mandala offering, a practice that pacifies all hindrances to temporal and ultimate happiness
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Category: Daily Practices
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The Mandala Offering
(Last Updated
Oct 21, 2011
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The mandala offering is a powerful method to collect merit and purify miserliness.
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Sur Commentary: Practicing Aroma Charity for Spirits
(Last Updated
Jan 28, 2011
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A commentary on the practice of offering aroma to spirits
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Life Practices
(Last Updated
Nov 4, 2008
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Practices to do the rest of your life
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Advice for Daily Practice
(Last Updated
Mar 7, 2011
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Extensive advice from Lama Zopa Rinpoche on which practices should be done daily
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Dedicating the Merit
(Last Updated
Sep 13, 2010
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How to purely dedicate the merit for the happiness of others
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Category: Purification Practices
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The Benefits of Making Prostrations
(Last Updated
Sep 11, 2012
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The practice of prostrations to the Thirty-five Buddhas is a powerful method to purify past harmful actions and prevent unwanted sufferings in the future.
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Teachings From the Vajrasattva Retreat
(Last Updated
May 24, 2009
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Teachings from a three-month Vajrasattva retreat covering many lam-rim topics, purification practices, mantras, pujas and more.
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Teachings from the Nyung-Nä Retreat (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Dec 22, 2009
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Shakyamuni Center, Taichung, Taiwan. February 23-24 2007.
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Teaching on Purification (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
Apr 2, 2013
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A short teaching given before a Vajrasattva je-nang on the benefits of purifying negative karma.
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Purifying with the Four Powers
(Last Updated
May 30, 2012
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A teaching on the four opponent powers, a practice that purifies negative karma and obscurations
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Daily Purification: A Short Vajrasattva Practice
(Last Updated
Nov 1, 2011
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A short Vajrasattva sadhana for purification
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Commentary on Vajrasattva Practice
(Last Updated
Mar 12, 2013
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This commentary includes advice on combining the practice with prostrations and lam-rim meditation
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Burning Offering to Dorje Khadro
(Last Updated
Jul 5, 2011
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A practice for the purification of negative karma and obscurations.
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Category: Chöd
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Teachings Before Chöd Initiation (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Nov 15, 2012
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Extracted from a series of teachings given by Kyabje Lama Thubten Zopa Rinpoche at Maitripa College, Portland, Oregon in June 2009.
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Category: General Practice Advice
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Heart Advice of Achos Rinpoche
(Last Updated
Dec 5, 2011
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A teaching by abbot Achos Rinpoche, with a commentary by Lama Zopa Rinpoche.
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Guru Devotion and Consultation
(Last Updated
Jan 28, 2009
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Rinpoche answering questions in an interview with a student.
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Category: Tantra
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Training on the Tantric Path
(Last Updated
Jun 5, 2013
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In this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 27, Rinpoche explains how to achieve full enlightenment
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The Tantric Path
(Last Updated
Jun 15, 2010
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains why tantra is a quick path to achieving full enlightenment
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Chenrezig Mantra (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Oct 1, 2010
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An explanation of the meaning and benefits of reciting OM MANI PADME HUM. Karma and purification are also discussed.
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Category: Mantra Recitation
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The Mantra of the Exalted Jewel of the Pinnacle
(Last Updated
Apr 23, 2012
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A mantra that eliminates all fears, pacifies negative karma and sickness, and collects merit
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The Benefits of the Clouds of Offering Mantra
(Last Updated
Jan 26, 2010
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Rinpoche describes the benefits of reciting the Clouds of Offering Mantra.
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The Benefits of Chanting Om Mani Padme Hum
(Last Updated
Apr 28, 2009
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From Lama Zopa Rinpoche's invitation to join the one hundred million manis retreat
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Teachings at Maitreya Puja (Audio and unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Jul 12, 2012
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Teachings given at Maitreya Puja, Shakyamuni Center, Taichung, Taiwan on March 11, 2007.
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Precious Mantras
(Last Updated
May 8, 2012
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Four precious mantras and some of their benefits
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If One Wishes to Control Earthquakes
(Last Updated
Mar 22, 2012
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A practice to control earthquakes and the four elements, this is also beneficial for protection from radiation.
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How to Stop Rain
(Last Updated
Mar 22, 2012
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A sur practice that helps to stop rain
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Benefits of the Heart of Amogapasha Mantra
(Last Updated
Apr 29, 2009
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A teaching and brief commentary on the benefits of the Heart of Amogapasha Mantra
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Category: Vows
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The Direct and Unmistaken Method
(Last Updated
Feb 18, 2013
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The Practice and Benefits of the Eight Mahayana Precepts
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Motivation for Mahayana Ordination
(Last Updated
Dec 16, 2012
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The eight Mahayana precepts should be taken with the motivation of bodhicitta, remembering the kindness of other sentient beings
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Eight Mahayana Precepts (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Dec 13, 2012
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this teaching in Malaysia, April 1997.
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Category: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim)
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Category: Eight Worldly Dharmas
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Practicing Patience with our Enemy
(Last Updated
Aug 30, 2010
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How to practice patience and avoid the eight worldly dharmas.
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How to Practice Dharma: Teachings on the Eight Worldly Dharmas
(Last Updated
Oct 31, 2012
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Excerpts from a book of teachings on the eight worldly dharmas, edited by Gordon McDougall
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Category: Karma
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Understanding Karma
(Last Updated
Apr 7, 2010
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Excerpt from an edited compilation of Rinpoche's teachings on the subject of karma
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Teachings on Karma (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Jun 28, 2012
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Teachings on karma, excerpted from a lam-rim course led by Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Maitreya Instituut, Emst, in August 1990
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Positive Intention
(Last Updated
Jun 5, 2013
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In this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 27, Rinpoche explains that if the cause is not created, the result cannot be experienced
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Observing Karma
(Last Updated
Mar 5, 2013
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A strong understanding of karma gives energy to the mind and increases the fear of creating negative karma
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Karmic Results
(Last Updated
Jan 2, 2012
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The karmic results of nonvirtuous actions are experienced in this life or in future lives, unless we purify the negative karma.
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Karma and Finding Happiness
(Last Updated
Jul 12, 2012
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To eliminate suffering and obtain happiness, the most important thing is to have a good heart
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Four Outlines of Karma
(Last Updated
Jan 23, 2013
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When we practice thought training, experiencing problems becomes a cause for finishing the results of negative karma
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Category: General Lam-rim
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Training the Mind in the Path to Enlightenment
(Last Updated
Aug 28, 2012
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Three discourses on how to subdue the mind and achieve enlightenment by practicing the graduated path (lam-rim)
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The Wish-Fulfilling Golden Sun of the Mahayana Thought Training
(Last Updated
Jun 26, 2012
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Core lam-rim text written by Rinpoche for use during the Kopan Meditation courses
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The Need for Wisdom and Compassion (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
Aug 16, 2010
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings at Tara Institute, Australia, June 3, 2006.
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Teachings from Guadalajara: Days 5 - 8 (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
Aug 11, 2010
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Days 5-8 of an eight-day series of lam-rim teachings in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2008.
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Teachings from Guadalajara: Days 1 - 4 (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
Aug 11, 2010
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Days 1-4 of an eight-day series of lam-rim teachings in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2008.
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Teachings from Guadalajara (Edited)
(Last Updated
Aug 11, 2010
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An eight-day series of lam-rim teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche, edited by Ven. Ailsa Cameron.
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Questions Regarding the Lam-rim
(Last Updated
Apr 11, 2012
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Rinpoche answers questions from students at a Dharma center about the lam-rim.
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Perfect Freedom: The Great Value of Being Human
(Last Updated
Jan 23, 2013
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Teachings on a range of lam-rim topics, including renunciation, perfect human rebirth, tantra, Mahayana thought transformation and bodhicitta.
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Lam-rim: The Essential Practice
(Last Updated
Jan 27, 2011
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How lam-rim practice protects and pacifies the mind
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Lam-rim Weekend Course
(Last Updated
Jul 6, 2012
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Four discourses, on topics including how to make life meaningful, the concept of true existence and renouncing desire
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Lam-rim Teachings France 1990 (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Nov 1, 2011
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These teachings were given in July, 1990 in Nice, France.
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Lam-rim Teachings Australia 2006 (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Jun 5, 2012
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings in Brisbane, Australia in June 2006.
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Lam-rim Public Talk (Edited)
(Last Updated
Aug 11, 2010
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An edited public talk on lam-rim by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2008.
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Lam-rim Public Talk (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
Aug 11, 2010
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A public talk on lam-rim by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Guadalajara, Mexico in 2008.
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Door to Satisfaction (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
Jun 1, 2010
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These teachings were given in June of 2006 at Vajrayana Institute in Australia.
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Category: Guru Devotion
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The Kindness of the Guru
(Last Updated
Apr 28, 2012
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A teaching about guru devotion to mark the occasion of Ösel Hita's fifth birthday
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The Heart of the Path
(Last Updated
May 16, 2013
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Seeing the Guru as Buddha
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Relying on the Guru
(Last Updated
Jul 27, 2010
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To receive enlightenment, we must rely on the guidance of a perfect teacher
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Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga (Ganden Lha Gyäma)
(Last Updated
Feb 26, 2013
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A commentary on Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga practice, by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Mar 21, 2012
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These teachings include oral transmission of Lama Tsongkhapa Guru Yoga and the Three Principal Aspects of the Path.
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Guru Devotion and His Holiness the Dalai Lama
(Last Updated
Mar 21, 2013
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The meaning of "guru," the qualities of a guru, and the practice of guru devotion, with a focus on His Holiness the Dalai Lama
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Finding a Spiritual Guide
(Last Updated
Aug 9, 2011
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The spiritual teacher must have correct understanding of the graduated path to enlightenment
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Calling the Guru from Afar (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
Mar 25, 2012
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Teachings on guru devotion and oral transmission of Pabongka Rinpoche's Calling the Guru from Afar.
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Calling the Guru from Afar
(Last Updated
Mar 29, 2012
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A verse-by-verse commentary on the prayer Calling the Guru from Afar
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A Talk on Guru Devotion (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Sep 11, 2011
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A teaching on the purpose of life, compassion and guru devotion
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Category: Refuge
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The Preliminary Practice of Refuge
(Last Updated
Oct 10, 2012
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Detailed instructions on the refuge preliminary practice, compiled and edited by Ven. Thubten Wongmo
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The Benefits of Refuge
(Last Updated
Jul 16, 2010
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche summarizes the benefits of taking refuge
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Refuge Teachings (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Oct 17, 2012
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Teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche prior to a refuge ceremony at Jamyang Meditation Centre, London, in November 1992.
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Refuge (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Apr 25, 2011
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Motivation for refuge and teachings on refuge precepts.
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Mahayana Refuge
(Last Updated
Jun 15, 2010
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Mahayana refuge has three causes - fear, faith and compassion
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How Guru Shakyamuni Buddha Guides Sentient Beings
(Last Updated
Jan 23, 2013
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Guru Shakyamuni appears in various forms and aspects to guide sentient beings, according to their level of mind
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Blessings of the Merit Field
(Last Updated
Jan 23, 2013
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Each time we generate a realization in our mind, we have received a blessing
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Category: Three Principal Aspects of the Path
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Three Principal Aspects of the Path (Audio)
(Last Updated
Sep 23, 2008
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These teachings were given during a lam-rim retreat held at Vajrapani Institute in Boulder Creek CA from August 20-23 2006.
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The Importance of the Three Principal Aspects of the Path
(Last Updated
May 31, 2013
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In this short teaching, Lama Zopa Rinpoche emphasizes the importance of renunciation, right view and bodhicitta
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Remembering Renunciation and Bodhicitta
(Last Updated
Jun 5, 2013
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In this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 27, Rinpoche explains that if our actions are done with renunciation, right view and bodhicitta, our lives become meaningful
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Category: Renunciation
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Self-cherishing Brings All Unhappiness
(Last Updated
Jun 23, 2011
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The shortcomings of the self-cherishing thought
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Samsara is Only in the Nature of Suffering
(Last Updated
Jul 17, 2012
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We are under the control of karma and delusion and this keeps us circling in samsara
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Samsara is not a Pleasure Park
(Last Updated
Jan 13, 2011
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Samsara is only suffering, whatever the lifestyle
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Renouncing the Eight Worldly Dharmas
(Last Updated
Jul 11, 2010
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Renouncing the eight worldly dharmas brings real happiness and peace of mind
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Category: Four Noble Truths
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The True Cause of Suffering
(Last Updated
Jan 23, 2013
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If there is no true cause of suffering, there is no reason why we should have to experience suffering or problems
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Category: Perfect Human Rebirth
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This Precious Human Body
(Last Updated
Jul 18, 2012
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With this human body we have the opportunity to practice virtue and abandon nonvirtue
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Taking the Essence of the Perfect Human Rebirth
(Last Updated
Mar 5, 2013
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Rinpoche explains the special meaning and purpose of this human rebirth
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Perfect Human Rebirth and Bodhicitta (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Jan 24, 2012
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Excerpts from teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Geshe Langri Tangpa's Eight Verses of Thought Transformation at Manjushri Institute, Cumbria in 1979
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Category: Kopan Lam-rim Courses
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Category: 1970s
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Kopan Course No. 12 (1979)
(Last Updated
Oct 18, 2012
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Transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 12th Kopan Course
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Kopan Course No. 11 (1978)
(Last Updated
Oct 17, 2012
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Transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 11th Kopan Course
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Kopan Course No. 10 (1977)
(Last Updated
Apr 21, 2013
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A transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 10th Kopan Course
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Kopan Course No. 09 (1976)
(Last Updated
Jan 24, 2011
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Transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 9th Kopan Course
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Kopan Course No. 08 (1975)
(Last Updated
Jul 24, 2011
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A transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 8th Kopan Course
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Kopan Course No. 07 (1974)
(Last Updated
Apr 24, 2013
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Transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 7th Kopan Course
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Kopan Course No. 06 (1974)
(Last Updated
May 13, 2013
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Transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 6th Kopan Course
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Kopan Course No. 05 (1973)
(Last Updated
May 3, 2013
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Transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 5th Kopan Course
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Kopan Course No. 03 & No. 04 (1972-73)
(Last Updated
Apr 22, 2013
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Transcript of teachings given by Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 3rd and 4th Kopan Courses
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Category: 1980s
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Kopan Course No. 20 (1987)
(Last Updated
Apr 27, 2010
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Transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 20th Kopan Course
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Kopan Course No. 19 (1986)
(Last Updated
Dec 29, 2011
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Transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 19th Kopan Course
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Kopan Course No. 17 (1984)
(Last Updated
Apr 8, 2010
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Transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 17th Kopan Course
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Kopan Course No. 16 (1983)
(Last Updated
Jun 22, 2011
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Transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 16th Kopan Course
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Kopan Course No. 15 (1982)
(Last Updated
Jan 23, 2013
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Transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 15th Kopan Course
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Kopan Course No. 14 (1981) Audio and Unedited Transcripts
(Last Updated
Jan 8, 2012
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Excerpts from Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings at the annual Kopan Course in 1981
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Kopan Course No. 14 (1981)
(Last Updated
Oct 27, 2011
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Transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 14th Kopan Course
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Category: 1990 to present
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Kopan Course No. 35 (2002) (Audio and unedited transcripts)
(Last Updated
Oct 24, 2010
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Teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 35th Kopan Course.
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Kopan Course No. 33 (2000) (Audio and Unedited Transcripts) Continued
(Last Updated
May 27, 2011
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Transcripts of the remainder of the lectures by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 33rd Kopan Course
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Kopan Course No. 33 (2000) (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Jul 24, 2011
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Transcripts of the first 5 lectures by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 33rd Kopan Course
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Kopan Course No. 33 (2000)
(Last Updated
May 5, 2011
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A lightly edited transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 33rd Kopan Course
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Kopan Course No. 29 (1996) (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Jan 29, 2013
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Teachings on patience, bodhicitta, and reincarnation from the 29th Kopan Course, 1996.
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Kopan Course No. 28 (1995)
(Last Updated
Jun 29, 2010
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Transcript of teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 28th Kopan Course
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Kopan Course No. 27 (1994)
(Last Updated
Jun 3, 2013
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A transcript of teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 27th Kopan Course
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Kopan Course No. 25 (1992)
(Last Updated
Dec 29, 2010
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A transcript of teachings by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at the 25th Kopan Course.
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Category: Benefiting Animals
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The Mosquito is the Cause of Our Enlightenment
(Last Updated
Oct 21, 2011
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All our past, present and future happiness is due to the kindness of the mosquito
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Teachings from Boston (Audio)
(Last Updated
Feb 5, 2009
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These teachings and events were recorded in Boston, MA, USA, from July 27-31 2007.
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Mantras to Benefit Animals
(Last Updated
Feb 12, 2013
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Mantras that will free animals from the lower realms and plant the seeds of enlightenment in their mind streams
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How to Benefit Animals in Daily Life and in Death
(Last Updated
Apr 10, 2013
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Practices for benefiting animals in daily life and in death
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Animal Liberation with Master Hai Tao
(Last Updated
Dec 1, 2011
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Saving the lives of others brings peace in this world and creates incredible merit
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Animal Liberation (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Aug 15, 2012
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Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this talk at an Animal Liberation event at Shakyamuni Center, Taichung, Taiwan on March 4th 2007.
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Category: Contemporary Issues
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Category: War
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Prayer to Prevent War
(Last Updated
Dec 1, 2008
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Prayer for Peace by the Great Yogi Tang Tong Gyalpo
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Advice Regarding Negative Rejoicing
(Last Updated
Sep 17, 2008
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Advice about how to respond to news of war
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Category: Family and Relationships
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Planned Parenting: How to Make Having Children Meaningful
(Last Updated
Jul 29, 2009
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A talk on the need for parents to make a long-term plan for raising their children
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Category: Dharma in Daily Life
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What is Dharma Practice?
(Last Updated
Jul 27, 2010
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The meaning of Dharma and how to practice is explained by Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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The Yoga of Sleeping
(Last Updated
Oct 25, 2012
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How to transform sleep into virtue by practicing the yoga of sleeping
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The Yoga of Offering Food
(Last Updated
May 24, 2009
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How to Make Eating the Cause of Enlightenment for Oneself and All Other Sentient Beings
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Putting Effort into Dharma Practice
(Last Updated
Jun 2, 2011
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The importance of putting effort into Dharma practice during and after the Kopan meditation course
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Practicing Lam-rim as a Householder
(Last Updated
Oct 24, 2012
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We don't have to live in a hermitage to generate the realizations of the stages of the path to enlightenment
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Making Life Meaningful
(Last Updated
Sep 11, 2011
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How we can practice Dharma, the true cause of happiness, twenty-four hours a day.
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Making All Our Actions Virtuous
(Last Updated
Jan 20, 2011
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How all our actions can become virtuous and we can accumulate merit
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In Search of a Meaningful Life
(Last Updated
Sep 30, 2008
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Identifying the cause of suffering and how to end it
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Category: Religious Tolerance
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Compassion is the Essence of Religion
(Last Updated
Jun 2, 2011
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Subduing one's mind and practicing compassion is the essence of spiritual practice
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Category: Meditation
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Category: Compassion and Bodhicitta
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Category: The Good Heart
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Universal Responsibility (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
Mar 15, 2010
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Chapter One of "How Things Exist"
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Universal Responsibility
(Last Updated
Jan 13, 2011
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We are responsible for the happiness, peace and success of all sentient beings
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The Good Heart
(Last Updated
Jul 7, 2010
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The good heart as the source of all happiness
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Practicing the Good Heart
(Last Updated
Mar 15, 2010
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Compassion for all living beings is at the heart of Mahayana Buddhist practice
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Category: Developing Compassion
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Virtue and Reality
(Last Updated
Feb 28, 2012
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The methods for transforming everyday actions into the cause of enlightenment and the ordinary view of phenomena into the wisdom realizing emptiness
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The Joy of Compassion
(Last Updated
May 27, 2010
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Teachings on compassion for others as the means for overcoming all obstacles
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The Four Immeasurable Thoughts
(Last Updated
May 8, 2012
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How to meditate on the four immeasurable thoughts: immeasurable equanimity, immeasurable loving kindness, immeasurable compassion and immeasurable joy.
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The Benefits of Cherishing Others
(Last Updated
Mar 22, 2010
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains the benefits of cherishing all sentient beings without exception
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Compassion is the Real Answer (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Jul 30, 2012
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave this teaching on compassion in Madrid, on June 10, 2009.
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Cherish Others and Be Happy
(Last Updated
Oct 17, 2012
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You have two choices: to cherish yourself and be miserable or to cherish others and be happy
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Category: Bodhicitta
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Training the Mind in Bodhicitta
(Last Updated
Dec 9, 2010
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Mind training using the seven Mahayana techniques, and equalizing and exchanging oneself for others.
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The Preliminary Practice of Tong-len
(Last Updated
Sep 6, 2012
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Instructions on tong-len, the practice of “taking and giving"; the quickest way to generate bodhicitta and achieve enlightenment
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The Kindness of the Mother
(Last Updated
Jun 28, 2011
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Our mother gave us this human rebirth and the opportunity to practice Dharma
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Sentient Beings are Like Wish-fulfilling Jewels
(Last Updated
Aug 9, 2011
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Happiness comes from bodhicitta, which is received by depending on the kindness of sentient beings
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Practicing Bodhicitta (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Dec 9, 2010
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How to use depression and other problems to develop the good heart
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Practicing Bodhicitta
(Last Updated
Dec 9, 2010
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How to use depression and other problems to develop the good heart
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Loving Oneself
(Last Updated
Dec 9, 2010
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Practicing bodhicitta as the best way to love and take care of oneself
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How to Live with Bodhicitta
(Last Updated
Jun 2, 2011
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How to practice with bodhicitta in daily life
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Bodhisattva Attitude: How to Dedicate Your Life to Others
(Last Updated
Aug 5, 2012
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The first volume in LYWA Heart Advice, a series of core teachings taken from the experiential instructions of Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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Bodhisattva Attitude Booklet
(Last Updated
Apr 3, 2012
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How to dedicate your life to others
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Bodhicitta Motivation in Daily Life
(Last Updated
Dec 9, 2010
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How every action with bodhicitta motivation collects infinite merit and creates the cause for enlightenment
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Category: Mind Training (lo-jong)
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The Happy Path (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Dec 9, 2010
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Teachings on the merely imputed I, the benefits of altruism and compassion, how to transform problems and the five powers.
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The Happy Path
(Last Updated
Dec 9, 2010
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Edited teachings on the merely imputed I, the benefits of altruism and compassion, how to transform problems and the five powers.
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The Everflowing Nectar of Bodhicitta
(Last Updated
Jul 28, 2011
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The practice of Thousand-arm Chenrezig and the Eight Verses of Thought Transformation
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Mahayana Thought Training
(Last Updated
Dec 9, 2010
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How hindrances and adverse circumstances can become a support for Dharma practice
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How to Develop Loving Compassion
(Last Updated
Dec 9, 2010
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A commentary on the practice of thought transformation and bodhicitta in everyday life
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Essential Mahayana Thought Training
(Last Updated
Dec 16, 2012
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Techniques for the practice of mind training
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Commentary on the Everflowing Nectar of Bodhicitta
(Last Updated
Aug 2, 2011
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Commentary on the practice of Avalokiteshvara and the
Eight Verses of Thought Transformation
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Cherishing Others
(Last Updated
Jan 20, 2011
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Rinpoche explains why we should cherish other sentient beings who harm us
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Category: Working for Others
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Category: Emptiness
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Category: Nature of the 'I'
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Why We Need A Spiritual Path (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
Mar 10, 2010
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Teachings given at Tara Institute, Australia in June 2006.
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Teachings from Barcelona (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
Mar 15, 2010
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Teachings on selflessness and a partial oral transmission of the Golden Light Sutra
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Seeking the "I"
(Last Updated
Jan 7, 2013
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Self-grasping ignorance believes the I to be concrete and inherently existent
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Searching for the I
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Jan 13, 2011
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The I appears to exist, but it can't be found anywhere on the aggregates
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Category: How Things Exist
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The Merely Labeled I
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Jun 27, 2011
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The I and the aggregates are merely imputed by the mind
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Not Believing in Inherent Existence Brings Peace
(Last Updated
Jul 18, 2012
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Things exist in mere name and are merely imputed on the base
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Merely Labeled (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
Mar 9, 2010
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Chapter Five of "How Things Exist"
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Lam-rim and Meditation on Emptiness (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
Mar 24, 2010
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Chapter Three of "How Things Exist"
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How Things Exist (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
Mar 9, 2010
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Chapter Two of "How Things Exist"
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How Things Exist
(Last Updated
Feb 28, 2012
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Teachings on emptiness. A collection of five talks by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in New York, 1990.
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Different Ways of Looking at Things (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
Mar 9, 2010
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Chapter Four of "How Things Exist"
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Category: Mahamudra
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Teachings from the Mahamudra Retreat (Audio and Unedited Transcript)
(Last Updated
Sep 21, 2011
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Excerpts of Lama Zopa Rinpoche's teachings at the Mahamudra retreat hosted by Buddha House, Adelaide, in 2004.
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Mahamudra and Medicine Buddha Teachings
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May 8, 2012
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche gave these teachings in Crestone, Colorado, in June 2008.
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Category: Dependent Arising
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Interview on Emptiness
(Last Updated
Sep 2, 2012
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Defining the correct view of subtle dependent arising, dependence upon name
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In Praise of Dependent Arising (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Sep 30, 2010
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Teachings given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche on Lama Tsongkhapa's In Praise of Dependent Arising, Sydney, Australia, 1993.
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Category: Nature of Mind
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The Hallucinating Mind
(Last Updated
Jun 5, 2013
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In this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 27, Rinpoche explains how the hallucinatory mind sees everything as inherently existent
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Nature of the Mind
(Last Updated
Oct 17, 2012
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A Dharma talk explaining the mind, or cognition
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Mind Control
(Last Updated
Jun 20, 2012
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A teaching on the mind, the death process and the ultimate nature of the I
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Happiness Comes from the Mind
(Last Updated
Aug 19, 2010
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Happiness and suffering arise in dependence on the mind.
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Buddha Nature and the Omniscient Mind
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Sep 7, 2010
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The omniscient mind is the continuity of consciousness that is completely purified of all obscurations.
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Category: Sufferings of Samsara
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Category: Delusions
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The Three Poisonous Minds
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Aug 9, 2011
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Anger, attachment and ignorance are the cause of all our suffering
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The Shortcomings of Harmful Thoughts
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Jan 2, 2012
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Recognizing and renouncing harmful thoughts and actions brings peace and a meaningful life
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The Root of Samsara
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Jul 20, 2010
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How delusion and karma bind us to samsara.
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The Faults of Criticizing and Blaming Others
(Last Updated
Dec 28, 2011
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Creating harmony and good communication with others through compassion and thought transformation rather than blaming and criticizing.
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The Dissatisfied Mind
(Last Updated
Dec 13, 2012
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When the mind is under the control of disturbing thoughts there is no peace or happiness
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Following Desire
(Last Updated
Nov 29, 2010
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Following desire always results in dissatisfaction
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Category: Anger
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The Shortcomings of Anger
(Last Updated
Oct 22, 2012
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In order to control anger, we must reflect well on its shortcomings
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The Real Hero
(Last Updated
Aug 30, 2010
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The real hero is the person who fights anger and defeats the inner enemy, the delusions.
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Dealing With Anger
(Last Updated
Aug 12, 2008
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Understanding anger using the view of emptiness
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Category: Depression
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Transforming Depression
(Last Updated
Sep 9, 2008
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How to use depression to develop compassion and bodhicitta, and ultimately to achieve enlightenment
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Remedies for Depression
(Last Updated
Jun 15, 2010
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Techniques for cutting through depression
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Category: Sickness
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Dealing with Cancer
(Last Updated
Jun 2, 2010
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How to use cancer to attain enlightenment quickly
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Bodhicitta is the Best Medicine
(Last Updated
Jun 27, 2012
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The loving, compassionate thought of bodhicitta is the best way to heal HIV/AIDS, cancer or any other disease
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Attachment to Alcohol and Drugs
(Last Updated
Jul 25, 2012
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Uncontrolled attachment causes many problems, including addiction to alcohol and drugs
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Category: Impermanence & Death
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Category: Remembering Death
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The Certainty of Death
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Aug 31, 2010
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Death is definite and this precious human body is more valuable than a mountain of diamonds.
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Remembering Impermanence and Death
(Last Updated
Aug 25, 2010
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Meditation on impermanence and death is a powerful method to protect us from the delusions.
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Remembering Death
(Last Updated
Sep 8, 2008
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Liberation from samsara is possible by remembering impermanence and death and purifying negative karma
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche at LYWA October 2012
(Last Updated
Apr 23, 2013
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche teaches via live stream to students in Singapore and around the world.
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Impermanence and Death
(Last Updated
Jan 23, 2013
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Establishing the value of meditating on death and impermanence as motivation for practice and preparation for death
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Impermanence
(Last Updated
Aug 5, 2011
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Life finishes quickly, like autumn clouds or lightning in the sky
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Category: Preparing for Death
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Living Well, Dying Well (Audio and Unedited Transcripts)
(Last Updated
Dec 5, 2010
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A public talk about the purpose of life and the correct attitude towards death, given by Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Brisbane, 1991
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How to Benefit the Dying and the Dead
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Mar 16, 2010
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Prayers, practices and mantras for the time of death
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Donating Organs and the Time of Death
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Sep 17, 2008
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Rinpoche discusses in depth the process one should take when making preparations for death and giving the gift of life through organ donation.
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Category: Death and Rebirth
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Reincarnation
(Last Updated
Jul 7, 2010
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche explains how to analyze reincarnation
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Rebirth and Karma
(Last Updated
Jan 23, 2013
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An explanation of beginningless mind, reincarnation and the causes and effects of karma
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Category: Holy Objects and Monasteries
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The Power of the Buddha
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Sep 7, 2010
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By the power of the Buddha and holy objects, our actions become Dharma
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The Benefits of the Existence of Statues and of Making Statues
(Last Updated
Sep 29, 2008
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How to accumulate merit and the causes of ultimate happiness by viewing, making and respecting holy objects.
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The Benefits of Stupas
(Last Updated
Sep 5, 2012
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An extensive teaching on the benefits and blessings of stupas; includes advice about the Great Stupa being built near Bendigo, Australia.
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The Benefits of Prayer Wheels
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Nov 11, 2011
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Explanation of the different types of prayer wheels as a means of purifying negativities and accumulating merit
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The Benefits of Having Many Holy Objects
(Last Updated
Sep 17, 2009
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An explanation of the benefits of holy objects.
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Prayer Flags and Auspicious Days
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Jan 25, 2011
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Advice about hanging prayer flags
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Practices for Pilgrimage
(Last Updated
Jun 18, 2013
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Advice on how to make pilgrimage to the holy places as meaningful and beneficial as possible
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Offerings to Holy Objects
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Mar 28, 2013
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Making offerings to holy objects is a remedy for attachment, whether physically offered or mentally transformed
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How to Make Offerings and Prayers in Front of Holy Objects
(Last Updated
Sep 11, 2008
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche's prayers and offerings to the holy objects
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Commentary on Tsa-tsa Practice
(Last Updated
Aug 4, 2009
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Extensive instruction for making tsa-tsas as a practice and means to achieve a good rebirth, make extensive offerings, and receive the blessing of holy objects.
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Benefits of Building a Monastery
(Last Updated
Mar 12, 2013
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A talk by Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Nalanda Monastery, France, in March 2001
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Category: Monthly E-letter
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E-letter No. 99: August 2011
(Last Updated
Jun 18, 2012
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The Good Heart is the Root of Happiness : Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 98: July 2011
(Last Updated
Jun 18, 2012
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The Eight Verses of Thought Transformation: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 97: June 2011
(Last Updated
Jun 18, 2012
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The Kindness of the Mother: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 96: May 2011
(Last Updated
Jun 18, 2012
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Compassion is the Essence of Religion: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 95: April 2011
(Last Updated
Jun 18, 2012
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Teachings and information regarding Lama Zopa Rinpoche's stroke.
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E-letter No. 93: February 2011
(Last Updated
Jun 18, 2012
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Bodhisattva Attitude: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 92: January 2011
(Last Updated
Jan 31, 2011
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Generating Bodhicitta: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 91: December 2010
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Dec 29, 2010
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Daily Practice Advice: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 89: October 2010
(Last Updated
Oct 29, 2010
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Advice for Depression: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 88: September 2010
(Last Updated
Sep 29, 2010
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Equalizing the Eight Worldly Dharmas: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 87: August 2010
(Last Updated
May 23, 2012
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The Real Hero: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 85: June 2010
(Last Updated
May 23, 2012
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The Tantric Path: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 84: May 2010
(Last Updated
Jun 1, 2010
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Lama Yeshe's Biography
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E-letter No. 83: April 2010
(Last Updated
Apr 28, 2010
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Cheated by the World: Lama Yeshe
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E-letter No. 82: March 2010
(Last Updated
Jun 23, 2010
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Attachment and Past Lives: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 81: February 2010
(Last Updated
Feb 25, 2010
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Universal Responsibility: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 80: January 2010
(Last Updated
Feb 2, 2010
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Discovering the Meaning of Dharma: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 7: August 2003
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Jul 19, 2010
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Follow Your Path Without Attachment: Lama Yeshe
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E-letter No. 79: December 2009
(Last Updated
Dec 27, 2009
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The Shortcomings of Samsara: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 77: October 2009
(Last Updated
Oct 28, 2009
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How To Be Happy To Practice Dharma: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 75: August 2009
(Last Updated
Aug 27, 2009
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The Importance of Understanding Karma : Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 74: July 2009
(Last Updated
Jan 9, 2010
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The importance of Lama Chöpa : Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 73: June 2009
(Last Updated
Aug 20, 2009
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The Nature of Ignorance : Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 72: May 2009
(Last Updated
May 28, 2009
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The Nature of Mind : Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 71: April 2009
(Last Updated
Apr 28, 2009
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Crazy with Desire : Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 70: March 2009
(Last Updated
Apr 28, 2009
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Continuity of Consciousness : Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 6: July 2003
(Last Updated
Mar 23, 2009
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The Kindness of Other Sentient Beings: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 68: January 2009
(Last Updated
Feb 5, 2009
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The Source of Happiness: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 67: December 2008
(Last Updated
Feb 5, 2009
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More Benefits of Medicine Buddha Practice: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 66: November 2008
(Last Updated
Nov 25, 2008
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Benefits of Medicine Buddha Practice: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 64: September 2008
(Last Updated
Dec 28, 2008
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Milarepa: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 62: July 2008
(Last Updated
Oct 6, 2008
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I'm Not Really There: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 60: May 2008
(Last Updated
Jul 9, 2008
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Meditating on the Perfect Human Rebirth: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 5: June 2003
(Last Updated
Jul 8, 2008
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Meditating on Impermanence and Death: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 58: March 2008
(Last Updated
Dec 22, 2009
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Remembering the Kindness of All Mother Sentient Beings: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 57: February 2008
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Mar 25, 2009
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Why Do We Need A Guru?: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 55: December 2007
(Last Updated
Oct 3, 2008
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The Root of the Path: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 53: October 2007
(Last Updated
Oct 3, 2008
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How A Table Exists: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 51: July 2007
(Last Updated
Jan 12, 2009
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The Power of Compassion: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 50: June 2007
(Last Updated
Sep 9, 2008
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More Advice on Daily Practice: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 4: May 2003
(Last Updated
Mar 23, 2009
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The Importance of the Lam-Rim Outline: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 47: March 2007
(Last Updated
Oct 1, 2008
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The Causes of Happiness and Suffering: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 37: April 2006
(Last Updated
Jul 9, 2008
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The Practice of the First Three Perfections-con't: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 36: March 2006
(Last Updated
Jul 9, 2008
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The Practice of the First Three Perfections: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 34: January 2006
(Last Updated
Sep 30, 2008
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Peaceful Mind, Peaceful World: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 30: September 2005
(Last Updated
Jul 9, 2008
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The Root of Samsara: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 29: August 2005
(Last Updated
Sep 29, 2008
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Meditation on Emptiness: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 28: July 2005
(Last Updated
Mar 21, 2013
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Mind Retreat: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 27: June 2005
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Oct 3, 2008
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Practicing Lam-Rim in Daily Life: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 26: May 2005
(Last Updated
Oct 11, 2008
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Advice for Daily Practice: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 25: April 2005
(Last Updated
Mar 21, 2013
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Making Your Car Beneficial for All Sentient Beings: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 24: March 2005
(Last Updated
Oct 2, 2008
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The Preciousness of Every Sentient Being: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 22: January 2005
(Last Updated
Mar 23, 2009
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Guru Devotion: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 21: December 2004
(Last Updated
Jun 9, 2009
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Refuge and the Guru Omniscient Mind: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 19: October 2004
(Last Updated
Oct 1, 2008
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The Meaning of OM MANI PADME HUM
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E-letter No. 18: September 2004
(Last Updated
Oct 11, 2008
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Reincarnation and Past Lives (LZR
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E-letter No. 17: August 2004
(Last Updated
Sep 30, 2008
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The Benefits of Bodhicitta: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 13: April 2004
(Last Updated
Sep 30, 2008
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Meditating on the Perfect Human Rebirth: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 12: February-March 2004
(Last Updated
Oct 11, 2008
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Giving Up the 8 Worldly Dharmas: Lama Zopa Rinpoche
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E-letter No. 120: May 2013
(Last Updated
May 30, 2013
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche: A Prayer for Children
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E-letter No. 111: August 2012
(Last Updated
Nov 15, 2012
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Mind, Consciousness, and Buddha Nature
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E-letter No. 110: July 2012
(Last Updated
Nov 15, 2012
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Benefits of Dharma Practice
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E-letter No. 109: June 2012
(Last Updated
Nov 15, 2012
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche: The Importance of Knowing What Dharma Is
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E-letter No. 106: March 2012
(Last Updated
Jul 12, 2012
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Commentary on Calling the Guru From Afar
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E-letter No. 105: February 2012
(Last Updated
Jul 12, 2012
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Lama Zopa Rinpoche: Meditation on the Sound of Praise and Criticism
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E-letter No. 102: November 2011
(Last Updated
Jun 18, 2012
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Liberating Animals
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E-letter No. 101: October 2011
(Last Updated
Jun 18, 2012
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Why Dharma?
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E-letter No. 100: September 2011
(Last Updated
Jun 18, 2012
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Our 100th E-letter!